How to get the first non-null value in Java?

Apache Commons Lang 3

ObjectUtils.firstNonNull(T...)

Java 8 Stream

Stream.of(T...).filter(Objects::nonNull).findFirst().orElse(null)

No, there isn't.

The closest you can get is:

public static <T> T coalesce(T ...items) {
    for(T i : items) if(i != null) return i;
    return null;
}

For efficient reasons, you can handle the common cases as follows:

public static <T> T coalesce(T a, T b) {
    return a == null ? b : a;
}
public static <T> T coalesce(T a, T b, T c) {
    return a != null ? a : (b != null ? b : c);
}
public static <T> T coalesce(T a, T b, T c, T d) {
    return ...
}